growing pains
1. dull, quasi-rheumatic pains of varying degree in the limbs during childhood and adolescence, often popularly associated with the process of growing.
2. emotional difficulties ...

growing point
Bot.
the undifferentiated end of a root, shoot, or vegetative axis consisting of a single cell or group of cells that divide to form primary meristematic tissue.
[1825-35]
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growing season
Period of the year, also called frost-free season, during which growing conditions for native vegetation and cultivated crops are the most favourable.
It usually becomes shorter ...

growing-equity mortgage
/groh"ing ek"wi tee/
a type of mortgage under which the interest rate is fixed but monthly payments increase annually to include more of the principal, so that the mortgage can ...